by Ahsan alee
After completing this tutorial one would gain moderate level understanding of Puppet and its workflow. It will also give you a fair idea on how to configure Puppet in a preconfigured infrastructure and use it for automation.
Puppet is a configuration management technology to manage the infrastructure on physical or virtual machines. It is an open-source software configuration management tool developed using Ruby which helps in managing complex infrastructure on the fly. This tutorial will help in understanding the building blocks of Puppet and how it works in an infrastructure environment. All the examples and code snippets used in this tutorial are tested. The working code snippets can be simply used in any Puppet setup by changing the current defined names and variables.